Adsearch is currently looking for a Commissioning Manager to join an international project , leading the commissioning, integration and stabilization of automated systems at customer sites.

This is a key position within highly complex industrial projects, involving automation, software, robotics and system integration. The successful candidate will play a central role throughout the commissioning, start-up and ramp-up phases, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring that the system reaches the agreed performance levels.

Key Responsibilities

Commissioning Readiness Management

- Define the commissioning strategy and key milestones.
- Develop and maintain the commissioning plan, including testing scope, test sequence, protocols, acceptance criteria, resources and schedule.
- Monitor readiness prior to commissioning and drive outstanding actions to closure.
- Coordinate FAT readiness reviews and pre-commissioning activities.
- Identify integration and commissioning risks and define appropriate mitigation actions.
- Provide commissioning input into project planning, including duration estimates, resource requirements and realistic milestones.
- Verify dependencies between project disciplines before site execution.

System Integration Coordination¡

- Coordinate activities across Software, Automation, ICT, Robotics and Site Operations .
- Manage interfaces and dependencies between different project disciplines.
- Set integration priorities and commissioning objectives across teams, ensuring everyone works according to the same sequence and acceptance criteria.
- Drive the resolution of integration issues impacting project progress.
- Coordinate third-party suppliers and subcontractors involved in commissioning activities.
- Ensure interfaces between subsystems are clearly defined, version-controlled and tested before the system moves to the next phase.

Commissioning Execution

- Lead commissioning activities at customer sites and adapt the plan as site conditions evolve.
- Define testing priorities and execution sequences.




- Own the site punch list and drive issues through to closure.
- Coordinate daily commissioning activities across disciplines, subcontractors and customer teams.
- Monitor progress against commissioning milestones.
- Escalate any matters affecting scope, cost, schedule or contractual commitments to the Project Manager.
- Represent the Project Manager on site within the agreed scope of authority.
- Ensure commissioning activities comply with company safety standards, customer HSE requirements and applicable local regulations.

Customer Operational Coordination

- Act as the primary operational interface with the customer throughout commissioning.
- Coordinate operational activities and agree daily and weekly execution priorities with customer teams.
- Monitor customer commissioning prerequisites and drive them to closure.
- Ensure customer issues are assigned to the appropriate teams, prioritized and followed through to resolution.
- Facilitate effective communication between customer representatives and project teams.

Start of Production & Stabilization

- Lead operational activities during Start of Production .
- Coordinate multidisciplinary support teams during ramp-up.
- Ensure production ramp-up progresses in line with project objectives.
- Monitor system performance and operational stability and drive corrective actions.
- Support stabilization activities until the system is successfully handed over to the customer.
- Ensure start-up activities comply with safety, HSE and applicable local regulatory requirements.

Progress Monitoring & Reporting

- Track commissioning progress against project plans and milestones.




- Monitor effort spent versus presente progress achieved.
- Coordinate status reviews and follow-up meetings.
- Provide regular progress reports to the Project Manager and relevant stakeholders.
- Identify execution risks and communicate recovery actions.,

Requirements
- Bachelor's degree , preferably in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in commissioning, start-up, system integration or industrial project environments.
- Solid experience with automation, industrial software, robotics, ICT or system integration .
- Knowledge of acceptance testing, commissioning, start-up and operational readiness processes.
- Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, subcontractors and customers.
- Strong planning, coordination and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make decisions and manage competing priorities in high-pressure, business-critical environments.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent Spanish and English , both written and spoken.
- Willingness and availability to travel frequently and spend intensive periods on customer sites.

What the role offers
- The opportunity to join a highly complex international technology project .
- A key role with significant visibility across project execution.
- Exposure to a multidisciplinary environment combining automation, software, ICT and robotics.
- Direct interaction with international customers, partners and technical teams.
- The opportunity to contribute to business-critical projects where commissioning and operational stability are essential to successful delivery.

? Location: Spain / International projects ✈️ Travel: Frequent

? Industry: Industrial Automation / Intralogistics / Technology

If you have experience leading commissioning and start-up activities for complex industrial systems, we would be very interested in hearing from you. CV to [email protected]

📌 Commissioning Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Adsearch
📍 Madrid